Black Metal.

[General Zaroff]

and one of the coolest covers ever!

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:kickass:

 

[EndlessSolitude]

Any ideas on an artist with an equally triumphant feel/sound to that of 'Horn?'

 

[Zephyrus]

 

[wandering_taco]

That is awesome, I dont know what the original sounds like but I really enjoyed that.

 

[Zephyrus]

Some one post a list of good black metal that has come out this year. The only black metal album I've heard from 08 is Horn "Naturkraft" and it was decent.

Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax
Behexen - My Soul For His Glory
Darkspace - Dark Space III
I Shalt Become - Requiem
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Mord - Necrosodomic Abyss
Veneficium - De Occulta Philosophia

 

[Alter]

Avsolutized - Den Svarta Vandans Genealogi
Mgla - Groza
Arckanum - Antikosmos

All from my top 10 of 2008.

 

[rms]

Kawir(gre) has a cd out it's pretty good

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Sombre by Veil is great as well.

 

[Zephyrus]

That is awesome, I dont know what the original sounds like but I really enjoyed that.

Storm of the Light's Bane will be your next purchase, then.

 

[wandering_taco]

Storm of the Light's Bane will be your next purchase, then.

Just read a stellar review on this album, and that coupled with your rec of it and the fact that I loved that vid make me think I may actually buy it in the near future.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Just read a stellar review on this album, and that coupled with your rec of it and the fact that I loved that vid make me think I may actually buy it in the near future.

their first two albums are classics

 

[S<issors]

Averse Sefira - Advent Parallax

Get this shit!

Arckanum - Antikosmos

also extremely excellent.

Speaking of which, what are Arckanum's best releases? I really liked Antikosmos, so anything stylistically similar would also be a welcome rec

 

[Belligerent]

Just read a stellar review on this album, and that coupled with your rec of it and the fact that I loved that vid make me think I may actually buy it in the near future.

Storm of the Lights Bane is a must!

 

[Zhou Tai 04]

Crap! I just found out that Kestmorg completely changed their style....this is really disappointing. They used to be great.... It's like crappy video game music now, when they used to be progressive black metal.

uke:

 

[S<issors]

Electric fields, what the gay?

That's too bad, I never listened to Kestmorg, but prog-black is such a potentially cool style that I'm sad to hear they abandoned it. For my money, black metal these days is most interesting when you get some experimentation tossed into the mix, whether "progressive" or otherwise.

 

[TheInsane]

For ones who know Swedish - could you translate for me the intro-speech in Arckanum's song "Svarte" (Antikosmos)? I'm courious what he yells bout.

Im sorry but thats pretty hard to hear. They start each phrase with a norse god. Example: "Loki! Hail Loki!" and "Fenrer! Hail Fenrer!". Other norse gods/places mentioned are Hel and Jörmungander. He talk about these gods and their role in Ragnarök (also the last word he shouts). Ragnarök is "the powers (gods) darkness" and is the end of the world/beginning of a new world in old norse mythology.

The black metal culture tends to be dualist and norse religion really wasnt so my guess is that they interpret the old tradition in their own way to fit with the ideas of current black metal culture (i.e. two opposing forces where they tend to "root for" chaos and darkness - in old norse thinking chaos and darkness was the compliment of order and light - they werent ultimately at odds with eachother but part of the same thing).

Hope that helps.

 

[TheCount]

Get this shit!
Speaking of which, what are Arckanum's best releases? I really liked Antikosmos, so anything stylistically similar would also be a welcome rec

Not sure havent heard Antikosmos yet im going to get it today, but you should check out Fran Marder and Kostogher i prefered Fran Marder, but both are good.

 

[~Neurotica]

Im sorry but thats pretty hard to hear. They start each phrase with a norse god. Example: "Loki! Hail Loki!" and "Fenrer! Hail Fenrer!". Other norse gods/places mentioned are Hel and Jörmungander. He talk about these gods and their role in Ragnarök (also the last word he shouts).

Cheers

 

[Belligerent]

For my money, black metal these days is most interesting when you get some experimentation tossed into the mix, whether "progressive" or otherwise.

Agreed. I recently discovered Transcending Bizarre(from Mathias) and they are extremely badass but i need more Prog/Black rec's.

 

[Black Friday]

I'm getting more into Black Metal with Emperor. I know some people say they're overrated, so could you guys give me some stuff similar to them, but better?